RE: FLW Red Wing
I believe the guy had a somewhat sophisticated plan... His fish were tied to the stumps and limbs with heavy mono... He would cast until he caught the mono and then retrieved the fish... I presume he hooked the line and thereby hooked the fish... This might not have been immediately discernible, if at all, by a Co-angler who was not asked to net a fish and/or was instyructed to just "stay back there"...
Nevertheless, the guy was caught and his wife and kid(s) were present at the weigh-in.
My final comment is that the sentence was far too lenient... If he wasn't going to get jail time... the fine should have been at leadst equal to the first place prize he tried to steal... That just might deter a few... make it a "civil penalty", not dischargeable in a bankruptcy...
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